The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-12-22

N'--eoeet 70 the New York Herald) 81
WASHINGTON, December ll.-There is
stoWlng belief among leading Demo.
Shssss enat Mr. Carlisle would do we'll for
SAs purity 9 harmonious action on the re-
uu9ctlon ug OF the surplus if he should make
V1 IIr. handali chairman of the WAYS and
Means COMMITTEE. The suggestion has
peen made to Mr. Carlisle by q promi-
nene western Democrat, whose belief is
snas Snas selection would have the hap
pest ehectln leading the two wings of
ene party to "Hop together" The sug-
sssuon does not please the Republicans
~. ~ W Ihey have lively hope that the
Deal,aocrats will disagree in this Congress,
Morrison, in the last
Ihose Democrats who think it would
be good policy for Nj. CARLISLE to ask ash,
Mr.. Randall to be Chairman of tbe Was
and Means, do not, however much ry.
pect this to be done, because thev ac-
knowledge that it would be too unbear-
able to Colonel Watterson, who is inst
now engaged in shooting the deserterg y
and who, it is feared, would shoot the
whole Democratic party if so sensible a
thlng should be done as to put Mr..
mandall at the head of the Ways and
Means.
THE PRoBLEM OF THE SURPLUS,
All prophecies as to what kind of bill
TO abolish the surplus revenues will in
the end pass Congress and go to the
PRESIDENT are mere folly. The Demo
Gratis have but narrow majority in the
aouse and areln minority in the Senate.
When the Ways and Means Committee
Drlngs into the House bill to reduce
taxes, that will be debated very fully,
ana Is then likely to be largely changed
before 1t passes the House. It will then
go into the hands of tho Finance COM
mittee in tho Senate, of which the ma
Jorlty are Messrs. Morrill,, Sherman,
Jones, of Nevada, Allison, Aldrich and
Hlscock, all strong protectionists. Tney
will change the bill to suit their views.
and bring it into the Republican Senate
thus amended, where again it will be
fully debated, and when it passes there
1T will return to the House to bo again
considered.
Leading men Of both sides believe that
the tobacco tax will be repealed; in fact,
that is generally taken for granted. The
Democratic plan is, thereupon, to add
largely to the free list, by way of reduc-
ing taxation and striking off surplus
revenue, because to merely lower duties
on imported articles would probably in
crease and not decrease the revenue.
REPUBLICANS IN a DILEMMA.
The Republicans, until within q few
days, were determined on one Of tho two
courses, either to strike off the tobacco
tax and the sugar duty. which would re-
duce the surplus by about eighty mil
lions, or to repeal the whole internal
revenue taxes. Since they have realized
the dilemma in which the Presidents
message puts them, some of them are
halting to consider tho situation. They
are SO fully committed to q revision Of
the tariff by their speeches and plat
forms that, with the message staring
them in the face, they begin to think it
may be dangerous for them to absolute
ely refuse and resist all tariff amend
ments.
The message has in fact put the Re-
publicans in bad hole. The problem
the President presented in it he pre-
sented to both parties, because tho Re
publicans rule in one House, tho Demo
Gratis In the other, and, to get the sur
plus reduced, both parties must act.
The strong presentation of the matter
by the President has awakened tho
country to the fact that the surplus
revenues must be largely reduced to
prevent general industrial and financial
ruin. How this shall be done, Mr..
Cleveland says in his message, depends
entirely on Congress-that is to say, on
the Democrats i'll the House and on the
Republicans in the Senate; and while he
has given them his recommendations in
the matter, as is his constitutional duty,
he has in plain words put the whole re-
tU nf fN 1rL
danger on Congress, where it belongs
THE DUTY OF THE HOUR.
1t is perfectly understood by the Re-
publicans that the President will, and
indeed must, sign any bill sent him
which actually reduces revenue. The
longer they consider the Presidents
message, the more awkward the Repub-
hcans see is the situation in which it
places them, and the more difficult they
see their course to be. What conclu-
sion they Will eventually reach they do
not themselves know. They came here
convinced that to repeal the tobacco tax
and the sugar duty was their cheap and
easy way out; but they are not nearly as
sure about it today. Republican mem-
bers and Senators from some Western
Republican States havo been already
made to feel the pressure of public SEN
tlment favorable to tariff reform. The
remarkable course of the Chicago Tri-
bune in promptly and positively sup
porting Mr.. Cleveland's message, and in
as plainly opposing Mr.. Blaine's pians,
IS seen to be not merely the expression
of Mr.. Medill's own long held faith in
tariff reform, but to denote also that
.)ehind the powerful Chicago Tribune
Tands strong and growing Republican
l., &blic opinion and demand for tariff re-
form.
MIR. Cleveland's message has been o.
shell in the Republican camp. If the
Democrats have wise leadership, which
will ,harmonize instead of disintegrating
the party, they can take and keep tho
lead and pass q judicious and beneficent
measure to strike off the surplus reve-
nues. The Presidents message has
shown the way, and it has put new heart
and vigor in the party in the same de-
gree that it is embarrassing the Repubi-
cans.
WASHINGTON, December 15.-Duriug
the performance Of article IL" by Clara
Morris, at the Grand Opera House tonight.
the play was interrupted by scene which
recalled the famous shooting case in this